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Kudos to Professor Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 for his outspoken criticism of political correctness and mediocrity at the most recent Faculty meeting. Mansfield has again proved himself to be one of the most courageous members of the Faculty, questioning the unquestioned assumptions and orthodoxies of his colleagues, even when it earns him only "gasps" and "hisses." ZACHARY L. SHRIER...
...special treatment, and put it about that gay people have a hidden agenda (like the Protocols of the Elder Zion that anti-Semites cite) to destroy the American family. They--we, I mean--are sinful, immoral, sick. The Christian Coalition had Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 come out from Harvard, Veritas glittering from his escutcheon, to testify in support of their crusade, and they...
...daughter of Nashville session man Fred Carter Jr. proves that her quadruple-platinum CD Did I Shave My Legs for This? was no fluke. Indeed, it was just a hint of Deana's daring, of her composing gifts and rangy taste: country, rock, power pop. In a sly, dry, sweetly froggy voice that weirdly suggests young Bobby of King of the Hill, Carter draws four-minute portraits of unfulfilled wives (Absence of the Heart), vengeful losers with an urge to arson (Dickson County), abandoned kids whose saving grace is not knowing when to quit (Angels Working Overtime). Twelve songs...
Among the tragic consequences of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination was that he was cut down before he could write his own assessment of his life. Now, 30 years after the murder, his family is attempting to fill the gap with the assistance of Clayborne Carson Jr., a Stanford University professor who edited King's papers. Sadly, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Warner Books, 400 pages, $25) does not deliver the sort of revealing self-examination that characterizes such powerful memoirs as the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass or The Autobiography of Malcolm...
This book is not a tabloid that claims to havelocated the "real" Charles Lindbergh, Jr. out inNew Mexico, or a detailed account of the life ofan American hero. It is a story about one woman'sattempt to come to know her own family more fully,and her desire to share that journey with us.Lindbergh writes that "Although it is now morethan twenty years since he died, we are stilldirected and dominated by our father's strength ofcharacter. And although she is more than ninetyyears old...we are still redeemed, gentled andsustained by our mother." In this moving familyportrait...